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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-03 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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In this frame from a movie, NASA's Cassini spacecraft pointed its cameras toward Saturn's moon Dione to witness its distant sibling moon Rhea briefly pass behind in a series of 32 individual frames taken over 17 minutes.
PIA06199:
Cassini's Private Eclipse Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's sibling moons, Rhea and Dione, pose for NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view. Even at this distance, it is easy to see that Dione (below) appears to have been geologically active in the more recent past, compared to Rhea (above).
PIA07649:
Seeing Double
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's cratered, icy moons, Rhea and Dione, come alive with vibrant color that reveals new information about their surface properties. Images in the Dione false-color view were acquired on Aug. 1, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07769:
Color Variation Across Rhea and Dione
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Saturn's Dione and Rhea pair up for an occultation, or mutual event, as seen by NASA's Cassini. While the lit portion of each moon is but a crescent, the dar side of Dione has begun to take a bite out of its distant sibling moon.
PIA08183:
Orbs Align
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Soft light from Saturn lifts the veil of night from the moons Dione (lower left) and Rhea (upper right). A scant crescent on each satellite marks the limit of the Sun's direct reach in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 11, 2006.
PIA08261:
Glow of Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-24 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn's moons appear conjoined in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon Dione, at the top in the image, is actually closer to the spacecraft, appearing to blend seamlessly with the moon Rhea.
PIA12728:
Conjoined Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-01 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image when Dione was closer to its camera, making the moon appear much bigger than her larger sister moon, Rhea.
PIA18319:
Dione Dwarfing Rhea Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
PIA08387:
The View from Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-24 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The Saturn moon Mimas is much smaller than Rhea, but the geometry of this scene exaggerates the actual differences in size. Here, Mimas is on the opposite side of the rings from Rhea and NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07614:
Misleading Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Rhea Voyager
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Bright streaks and blotches are visible against a darker back-ground on the surface of Saturn's satellite Rhea, seen in this image from NASA's Voyager 1 taken Nov. 11, 1980 from a range of 1,925,000 kilometers (1,196,000 miles).
PIA01372:
Saturn's Satellite Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 Rhea Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this high resolution color image of Rhea just before the spacecraft's closest approach to the Saturnian moon on Nov. 12, 1980 from a range of 128,000 kilometers (79,500 miles).
PIA02240:
Saturn's Moon Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Rhea Voyager
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Broad areas of light and dark material seen in this enhanced NASA Voyager 1 picture of Saturn's satellite Rhea suggest varying amounts of fresh ice on the moon's surface.
PIA02264:
Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Rhea Voyager
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Multiple impact craters are seen on the ancient surface of Saturn's moon Rhea in this picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range of 73,000 kilometers (45,000 miles).
PIA02270:
Rhea - Multiple Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Rhea Voyager
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The icy, cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea is seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980, at a range of 85,000 kilometers (52,800 miles) as the spacecraft passed over the satellite's north pole.
PIA02273:
Rhea - Icy Cratered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The first artificial satellite in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, returned images of the natural moons following a successful insertion into orbit.
PIA05419:
Crescent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows hints of its heavily cratered surface, including a bright feature near the terminator (day-night boundary).
PIA05431:
Receding Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-26 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a hint of Rhea's heavily cratered surface as it sped rapidly away from the moon on its first orbit of Saturn.
PIA06463:
Distant Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught this glimpse of Saturn's second largest moon, 1,528 kilometer (949 mile) wide Rhea on Aug. 16, 2004.
PIA06480:
Far Out Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The icy moon Rhea, Saturn's second largest satellite, hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this narrow angle camera image, showing just a hint of its crater-pocked surface.
PIA06490:
Second Largest Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles, across).
PIA06516:
Rhea's Battered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Rhea, which is about half the size of Earth's moon. At 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across, it is the second-largest moon orbiting Saturn.
PIA06525:
A Real Shiner
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea has been heavily bombarded by impacts during its history. In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the moon displays what may be a relatively fresh, bright, rayed crater near Rhea's eastern limb.
PIA06553:
Fresh Crater?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea.
PIA06555:
Rhea's Ancient Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Impact-battered Rhea exhibits a mottled appearance in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06559:
Mottled Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Features on the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea reveal clues about the moon's history. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two large impact basins near center and bottom exhibit central peaks.
PIA06560:
Ancient Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows predominantly the impact-scarred leading hemisphere of Saturn's icy moon Rhea.
PIA06564:
Rhea and Her Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-01 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea, showing the region's bright wispy markings.
PIA06575:
Impact Central
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea, seen here in natural color.
PIA06578:
Rhea in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two large craters lie along the boundary between day and night on Saturn's moon Rhea.
PIA06599:
Rhea's Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color picture of Saturn's moon Rhea from NASA's Cassini spacecraft enhances slight differences in natural color across the moon's face.
PIA06609:
Color on Rhea?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-05 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Though farther away from Cassini when the spacecraft acquired this image, Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea still dwarfs the brightest icy moon Enceladus in this scene. Image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06620:
Rhea and Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The ancient and battered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea shows a notable dark swath of territory near the eastern limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06630:
Dark Patch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-28 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea, with impact craters near the terminator thrown into sharp relief.
PIA06637:
Rhea's Relief
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The large Tirawa impact basin on Saturn's moon Rhea is visible at the two o'clock position in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06641:
Big Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-13 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Looking closely at Saturn's moon Rhea during a somewhat distant flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this view of what appears to be a bright, rayed and therefore relatively young crater.
PIA06648:
Great White Splat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays one of its more prominent features here: a bright, rayed crater which was seen at much higher resolution in an image taken two weeks earlier by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07514:
Rhea's Bright Splat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's brightly sunlit moon Rhea commands the foreground in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07517:
Sun-Drenched Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The story of the solar system is written upon the faces of its many worlds, such as Saturn's icy moon Rhea, seen here in an image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07527:
Rhea's Memory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays two large impact features here, along the terminator (the boundary between day and night), plus a superb rayed crater to the east. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07539:
Diversity of Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-01 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tremendous bright splat that coats much of the moon's leading hemisphere.
PIA07554:
Rhea's Bright Blemish
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Like the rest of Rhea's surface, the southern polar region of this Saturn moon has been extensively re-worked by cratering over the eons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows most sizeable craters have smaller, younger impact sites within them.
PIA07566:
Rhea: Polar View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the south polar region on Rhea during a recent distant encounter. Rhea's icy surface is so heavily saturated with impact craters that the moon's limb, or edge, has a rugged, bumpy appearance.
PIA07572:
Above Rhea's South Pole
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The giant Tirawa impact basin straddles the day and night boundary on Saturn's moon Rhea in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07575:
Tirawa at Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.
PIA07583:
Frame-Filling Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-12 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This half-lit view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
PIA07606:
Half-Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea's distinctive bright and relatively fresh-rayed crater lies in stark contrast to the large, round basin which sits along the terminator (the boundary between day and night) in this unmagnified view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07609:
Crater Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon, Rhea, illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the moon on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07756:
Prime Time for Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Rhea allows a glimpse of the wispy terrain that covers the trailing hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07635:
Sleek Rings, Rugged Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Gray and barren Rhea drifts beneath Saturn's more colorful rings. Bright wispy markings on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea are just visible curling along the western limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07642:
Rhea in Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This giant mosaic reveals Saturn's icy moon Rhea in her full, crater-scarred glory. The images in this mosaic were taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera during a close flyby on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07763:
Rhea: Full Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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In the nick of time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of the eastern rim of Saturn's moon Rhea's bright, ray crater. The impact event appears to have made a prominent bright splotch on the leading hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07764:
Catch that Crater
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows craters within craters cover the scarred face of Saturn's moon Rhea in this oblique, high-resolution view of terrain on the moon's western hemisphere.
PIA07765:
Craters, Craters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation show two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its sibling moon Rhea. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view on Dec. 5, 2005.
PIA07770:
Rhea Eclipses Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 667 meters (2,188 feet) per pixel.
PIA07780:
Map of Rhea -- December 2005
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This close view of Rhea prominently shows two large impact basins on the ancient and battered moon. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Dec. 23, 2005.
PIA07685:
Pulverized Pulchritude (Monochrome)
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This close view of Rhea, taken on Dec. 23, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows two large impact basins on the ancient and battered moon. The great age of these basins is suggested by the large number of smaller craters that are overprinted on them.
PIA07686:
Pulverized Pulchritude (Enhanced Color)
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Scarred and battered Rhea fills NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view. Notable here is the sharp relief of steep crater walls near the terminator. Icy Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is Saturn's second-largest moon.
PIA07689:
Cratered Iceball
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Bright, wispy markings stretch across a region of darker terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea. This image was taken using NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2006.
PIA08120:
Rhea's Wisps in Color
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This intense false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft highlights and enhances color variations across the cratered and cracked surface of Saturn's moon Rhea.
PIA08121:
Intense Color on Rhea
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Rhea shows off her bright, fresh-looking impact crater in this view from NASA's Cassini view taken during a close approach.
PIA08148:
Revisiting the Splat
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down upon Rhea, whose cratered surface was already ancient before any complex life developed on Earth. The terrain seen here has probably changed little in the past billion years.
PIA08173:
The Record of Rhea
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Enceladus briefly passes behind the crescent of Rhea in these images, which are part of a 'mutual event' sequence taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These sequences help scientists refine our understanding of the orbits of Saturn's moons.
PIA08180:
Now You See Me…
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A prominent scar on Rhea is seen by NASA's Cassini. A large and ancient impact basin is seen at upper right. The giant feature occurs within a terrain that appears rugged and which likely is saturated with other smaller craters.
PIA08186:
Reminder of Ages Past
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Rhea's crater-saturated surface shows a large bright blotch, which was likely created when a geologically recent impact sprayed bright, fresh ice ejecta over the moon's surface. This is image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08189:
Bright Ice Below
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Two Saturnian moons meet in the sky. Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 14, 2006.
PIA08203:
Uncovering Rhea
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Rhea's devastated surface creates a jagged terminator as mountains and crater rims break-up the line between day and night. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 22, 2006.
PIA08208:
Ragged Crescent
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In a silent orbital ballet, Saturn's crater-covered moon Rhea slips between the moons Mimas and Enceladus. The movie was created using 59 clear-filter images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera over a period of about 40 minutes.
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The Silent Spheres Animation Icon
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Two frigid moons, Rhea and Enceladus, shine in reflected light from Saturn. In such low light and at great distance, Rhea's cratered surface looks deceptively smooth in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Planetglow
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Rhea and Enceladus shared the sky just before the smaller moon passed behind its larger, cratered sibling.This image is part of a 'mutual event' series in which one moon passes close to or in front of another
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Enceladus Approaches
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Two slim crescents smile toward NASA's Cassini spacecraft following an occultation event.
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Rhea Releases Enceladus
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The rings cannot hide the ragged, icy crescent of Rhea, here imaged in color by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The second-largest moon of Saturn shines brightly through gaps in the rings
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Coy Rhea
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Bright streaks adorn the face of densely cratered Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Resplendent Rhea
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
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Map of Rhea - December 2006
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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus slides past distant Rhea in this mutual event, or occultation, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Enceladus Transits Rhea Animation Icon
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This view looks toward Rhea's north polar region, where icy fractures slither away toward the south as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Barren Pole
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Side-by-side natural color and false-color views highlight the wispy terrain on Rhea's trailing hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Color Across Rhea
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Rhea displays a marked color contrast from north to south that is particularly easy to see in this extreme color-enhanced view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Drawing Out Details
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the desolate, cratered crescent of Rhea, a surface so heavily bombarded over the eons that new craters are virtually guaranteed to form on top of older ones. The large Tirawa impact basin is visible here
PIA08909:
Rhea's Scars
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Rhea brushes the stormy face of Saturn, an airless ice orb against the feathery bands of a gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Crossing Saturn
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Wispy markings reach out across Rhea's surface from its trailing hemisphere. The bright markings appear to be fractures, like those found on Dione
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Rhea's Bright Wisps
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After nearly three years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to observe the planet's retinue of icy moons. Rhea's cratered face attests to its great age, while its bright wisps hint at tectonic activity in the past
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Accustomed to Her Face
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Rhea sports an immense impact scar on its leading hemisphere, like several other major Saturnian moons. The impact basin, seen above center on the day-night dividing line, or terminator, is named Tirawa
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Tirawa on the Terminator
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The night side of Rhea shines softly in reflected light from Saturn, as captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A similar effect, called Earthshine, can often be seen dimly illuminating the dark side Earth's moon.
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Rhea in Saturnshine
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Large and medium-sized impact basins on Rhea's trailing hemisphere are thrown into sharp relief by the grazing rays of the Sun. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
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Craters in Relief
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Bright, wispy markings cover the trailing hemisphere of Rhea. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 22, 2007.
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A Defining Feature
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft puts the enormous distances in the Saturn system in perspective with this view of Rhea and Prometheus. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from less than a degree above the ringplane.
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Depth of Field
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Rhea transits the banded clouds of the Ringed Planet. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2007.
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Banded Giant
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Rhea enters NASA's Cassini spacecraft's field of view and glides lazily across the scene as the spacecraft observes Saturn's restless atmosphere. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
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Icy Interloper
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The hummocky floor of a crater on Saturn's moon Rhea possesses a central peak and clusters of small craters as seen in this anaglyph from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Rhea's Pop-up Crater
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Rhea is frozen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured just before it glided in front of Saturn's northern hemisphere. The wispy streaks on Rhea's trailing side are partly visible in the west.
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Rhea Detached
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Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act. Along with the partly obscured Rhea are Tethys, at right, and Enceladus, left of Tethys.
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Obscure Moon
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The low illumination angle near the terminator makes visible the steep topography of craters on Rhea's battered surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 16, 2007.
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Rhea's Pitted Profile
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Wispy markings on Rhea reach across the moon's icy surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2007.
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Wisp-covered Rhea
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto middle northern latitudes on Rhea. The large Tirawa basin is seen on the terminator at right.
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North on Rhea
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the icy, crater-saturated face of Rhea. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across).
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Icy Moonlight
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes the wispy terrain that covers the trailing side of Rhea. North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated 27 degrees to the right.
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Trailing Rhea
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Rhea and the bright, rayed crater that is likely one of the younger features on the moon's surface.
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The Rays of Rhea
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Rhea drifts in front of Saturn. The battered, icy moon is seen here near the western limb of the planet's northern hemisphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2008.
PIA09844:
Background Planet
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a northern view of Rhea, spying the large Tirawa impact basin left of center.
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Soaring Over Rhea
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Densely cratered plains cover the ancient surface of Saturn's moon Rhea. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 4, 2008.
PIA09895:
Ancient Plains of Rhea
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